Supporting A Teen Through An Abusive Relationship

Life Kit

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Teens face dating violence at alarming rates — but don't always have the experience to know what to do. Adults play a critical role in supporting them by talking frankly about relationships and taking action when a teen needs help.

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0:00.0	This is MPR's Life Kit and I'm Kavita Kadoza.
0:03.2	A quick heads up, this episode contains details of abuse
0:06.7	and teen dating violence.
0:11.1	Liyazaga is 24.
0:13.2	Back when she was 15, she fell in love.
0:15.6	When I was a sophomore, another friend of mine,
0:20.7	who was also on the cheer team with me,
0:22.8	took me to a birthday party of someone
0:25.0	who went to our rival high school.
0:27.0	And that's where I met this guy who was a senior
0:31.0	at the rival high school.
0:32.5	We were kind of making doodly eyes at each other
0:34.4	and eventually exchanged numbers.
0:36.8	And as most high school relationships go,
0:40.2	pretty quickly decided like, okay, we're a boyfriend
0:42.4	and girlfriend.
0:43.7	It was exciting.
0:45.0	Her boyfriend seemed wonderful.
0:46.7	On their one month anniversary, he bought her flowers.
0:50.2	And then he said he'd heard a rumor
0:52.1	that she'd kissed someone else.
0:54.4	When Liyaz said, of course not,
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